FACILITATING PRESENTATION OF ADS RELATING TO WORDS OF A MESSAGE

• US 20090076917A1
• Filed: 09/17/2008
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: White, Marc, Paden, Scott Edward, Jablokov, Igor Roditis, Terrell, James Richard II, Jablokov, Victor Roditis
• Application Number:
  US12/212,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20090076917A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.390
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives

Abstract

Targeted delivery of contextually relevant ad impressions to a mobile device is provided. The ad impressions are delivered within text messages and/or instant message chat threads. Monetizing of text messaging and instant messaging by providers of such services is achieved, while providing unobtrusive and contextually relevant information to users of such services.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method facilitating the presentation of advertising that relates to a word that is part of text of a message, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving a message sent from a sender for communication to a recipient;

(b) scanning words of the message and identifying words for which advertising is available;

(c) communicating the message to the recipient; and

(d) communicating advertising for an identified word of the text of the message for presenting to at least one of the sender and recipient.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is a text message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is an instant message.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the message to additional recipients and communicating the advertising to the additional recipients.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of scanning the message and identifying words for which advertising is available includes identifying keywords, phrases and fragments in the message for which contextually relevant advertising is available for pushing to the recipient of the message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is a message string.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the words that are scanned include keywords, phrases, and fragments of the text of the message.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether to send an advertising based on demographic, psychometric, or past history of the sender of the message.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining the advertising from a third party for communicating to the recipient the advertising with the message.

10. A method facilitating the presentation of advertising that relates to a word that is part of the text of a message, comprising the steps of:

(a) by a sender, communicating a message for communication to a recipient;

(b) by a communications service provider,

(i) receiving the message communicated by the sender for communication to the recipient

(ii) scanning words of the message,

(iii) identifying words for which advertising is available,

(iv) communicating the message to the recipient, and

(v) communicating advertising for an identified word of the text of the message for presenting to at least one of the sender and recipient; and

(c) receiving, by the recipient, the message communicated from the service provider.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the service provider is a provider of instant messaging services.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying the advertising as an instant message in an instant message chat conversation.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the service provider is a provider of text messaging services.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising displaying the advertising as a text message in a threaded text messaging conversation.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the message is communicated from a mobile communication device of the sender, and wherein the advertising is communicated to the mobile communication device of the sender.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the message and advertising are received by a mobile communication device of the recipient.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising additionally communicating the advertising to a mobile communication device of the sender.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising providing an option to the recipient for forwarding the advertising to the sender, wherein the provided option includes forwarding the advertising by at least one of text messaging, instant messaging, and email.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising providing an option to the recipient for forwarding the advertising to the sender, wherein the provided option includes forwarding a hyperlink associated with the advertising.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the advertising is displayed such that selection of the displayed advertising results in the launching of a web browser.

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